Predicate: decline

decline: Frames file for 'decline' based on survey of initial sentences in big corpus and comparison with 'fall' beware of adjectival usages like: "declining interest rates"

Roleset id: decline.01 , fall, vncls: 45.6, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg1: Logical subject, patient, thing declining (vnrole: 45.6-Patient)
        Arg2: EXT, amount declined by (vnrole: 45.6-Extent)
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point, end state of arg1
        ArgM: medium

Example: unaccusative

        ..if interest rates decline

        Arg1: interest rates
        Rel: decline

Example: with EXT

        Backlogs declined 0.3%

        Arg1: Backlogs
        Rel: declined
        Arg2: 0.2%

Example: with EXT and end point

        Its net income declining 42% to $121 million in the first 9 months of 1989

        Arg1: Its net income
        Rel: declining
        Arg2: 42%
        Arg4: to $121 million
        ArgM-TMP: in the first 9 months of 1989

Example: with start point

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        But she expects prices to rebound soon and is telling investors
        she expects the stock market won't decline more than 10 % to 15 %
        [*U*] from recent highs.

        Arg1: the stock market
        Argm-MOD: wo
        Argm-NEG: n't
        Rel: decline
        Arg2: more than 10 % to 15 % [*U*]
        Arg3: from recent highs

Roleset id: decline.02 , demure, turn down, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: entity turning down
        Arg1: thing turned down

Example: arg1 as verbal

        [A spokesman]-1 declined *trace*-1 to elaborate

        Arg0: A spokesman
        Rel: declined
        Arg1: *trace* to elaborate

Example: Arg1 as NP

        A Johnson & Johnson spokesman declined comment.

        Arg0: A Johnson & Johnson spokesman
        Rel: declined
        Arg1: comment